The 3rd stage of the annual John Van Caneghem Tournament (2007).

Ah, Dmitry_A_S, where were you when I raised this issue? It was in a thread about either my first or second stage. VDV_Forever convinced me at the time that it was perfectly acceptable for the game. The idea is to plan the endgame so that the main player finishes the game – that's the whole point.

In the first stage, I brought up this question right away (/topic/1811/, post #4). VDV didn't change the rules and also decided to consider this issue after the tournament (I’ll have to remind him of this afterwards ;)). In the second stage, I could leave heroes in the save file and specify whose skills should be taken into account.